January 2012
32 posts
“I was a member of a fraternity that asked... →
A 28-year-old police officer committed suicide... →
LIKE practically every other high-end designer,... →
Clips from Steve Jobs (Walter Isaacson)
There was some resentment among his fellow line workers toward the pushy kid who had talked his way in by calling the CEO. “I remember telling one of the supervisors, ‘I love this stuff, I love this stuff,’ and then I asked him what he liked to do best. And he said, ‘To fuck, to fuck.’” ========== On a big bedsheet Baum had tie-dyed with the school’s green and white colors, they painted a huge...
hallekiefer:
I’m going to rewrite The Marriage Plot, altering only the last page, when everyone chokes to death on a garbage bag full of saltwater taffy.
The design, “Knut — The Dreamer” by Josef... →
Aber warum sieht der Euro so lahm aus? →
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One little boy was instructed to pose for cameras... →
Recently, the Penningtons, who live with their... →
Mr. Wulff, a key ally of Mrs. Merkel, left a... →
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The 6-foot-4 Mr. Olbermann started sniping... →
“I think the relationships that you have when... →
December 2011
50 posts
“Personality does matter,” said Michael Dee, a... →
“I have one very well behaved cat (no scratching of furniture). I am quiet,...”
“You can’t do that,” he told her flatly when she... →
A passage about the difficulty that people with autism have reading facial expressions reminded her of being mocked by a friend at age 5 with whom she had agreed to draw “angry ghosts.” The friend’s ghost had zigzag lines for scowling lips and a knitted brow. Kirsten, unsure how to depict anger, had drawn a blank-faced ghost with a dialogue box above its head that read “Grrr.”
